Hole was in my home town Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 11, 1999. Me and 3 of my friends(Andey,Jenifer & her sis,Mellissa, and -G-) arrived at The Brady Theater where the goddess was performing, at 5:00 pm, two hours before the doors would open. We stood in the general admission line so we could get as close as possible. Then the doors opened, my heart started to flutter. We get in, and get to absolute nearest place near the stage, we were against the railing right by security. Little by little the arena filled with people. Soon it was packed, and Imperial Teen came out. They were pretty good, but I was really just there to see Hole, so I didn't really care about them. As soon as they said "you guys enjoy hole!" everyone in the mosh pit got as close as they possibly could to the stage. I was in a very uncomfortable position. These really stupid people kept pushing and the pit was swaying back and forth. I was being pushed to the back of the pit, I could not breathe and was on the verge of unconsciousness. But -G- said he was getting out cause he couldn't breathe either,so I went with him. We went to the side of the stage where no one was at we sat down, and five minutes later the lights went out. I was freaking out. I got up against the rail, and I could see the band mates walking out to there positions, and I saw her, smoking.The beginning of "Credits in the straight World" or "Old Age" was playing- the chanting, then suddenly the lights came back on and They were playing "Violet", tears were streaming down my face.
She was wearing a long pink pastel skirt with matching bikini top with this bright pink tight fishnet thing over it. Then she started to talk to us, telling us bout her new found "okie" ancestry "I just like found out my grandpa was from here, isn't that weird? So I now were you guys are coming from" She was very nice, she kept talking to us like we were besat friends. Melissa kept saying we were "quite the rock city!". She also said "In the sixties, there was really cool punk. Not all that folk shit, they are fooling you." Then they played a 60's punk song, I think it was like a bob dylan song or something like that. She was very nice, she kept pulling crowd surfers, and people who were being pushed into the rail. She was very generous, one of my friends, Lauren, was called out of the balcony, and Courtney gave her guitar to her, signed it, a poster signed, and signed her shirt.Courtney said she had a "pshyic connection with her" Well I had already taken lots of pics when the camera was taken away from me,they riped out the film. oh well.
She then took off the pink fisnet thing and was only wearing the bikini top and skirt, she was so hot. During "boys on the radio", she climbed onto the security guards shoulders and swayed back and forth singing. Then during "Malibu" canons shot and confetii was everywhere. It was so magical. We all scrambled to the floor top get some pieces of it (I got some!). Then they left the stage. We all screamed for Hole to come back on. She was now wearing a blue sparkly, VERY short dress. She now played "Northern Star" she kept yelling at everyone, saying "Be quiet, you will enjoy this more if you're quiet,and so will I. I swear to God guys, I will leave. You'll get you're punk rock in a minute!" We obeyed. She then played Slade's "cum on feel the noise". Then they played "celebrity Skin". It was then over. The only thing I got was some confetii, Andey by best friend got a rose that was thrown to Courtney, were she threw back to the audience. It was the greatest moment of my life, well so far.
Thank you for thisBaby Doll Girl